Improvement in tttcbjns-attachment for sewing-machines



. correct description t 4 which p tklnitul fitatrz HENRY E.- BODWELL, JR, OF SOUTH NORWALK, CONNECTICUT paw @fljfine Letters Patent No. 95,874, dated October 19, 1869. I

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To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, HENRY E. BODWELL, Jr., of e town of South N orwalk, county of Eairfi'eld, and State of Connecticut, have invented a new and useful Improvement in 'luckers for Use on Sewing-Machines; and I do hereby declare that thefollowing is a full and hereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawing. and to the .lettersof reference marked thereon. The nature of my invention consists in the anangement of parts, as hereinafter described, for regulating and fold tuck. To enable others skilled in the art to make and use my invention, I-will proceed to describe the same.

In-the drawingif f the't'uckeras placed on the ing the cloth to forni any required width 02 Figure l'is a view 0 table of a sewing-machine.

The flat plate A- is'fm'med with a slot, B, and set-screw, O, forattaching firm to a table, with aloose hinged folding-plate, D,'at the end to regulate the width of the tuck. i This plate D is adjustable, by means ot' the, pin F," asses through the hinge-joint, so that several plates of different widths can be substituted to fold any required width of tuck. a The forming-plate E is made, as shown in the drawing, with an .arm sliding in the flat socket G to the bottom of the vertical slotted plate H. 1

, as shown :in'the draping, y

. This vertical slotted plate H rises up at a right I I The guide Lis attachedon tow the H supporting the plate H of the :in the guide betvie .thenturned over the ed cloth, and -laying angle from theslide-s'ocket' G, and is attached to the arm K, by means ofv the set-screw M, so as; to-be, adjustable, to regulate the width of the tack.

at socket G by the set-screw andislot I I, so that it can be adjusted to the distance for the finished tech to slide in;

The arin E of the forming-plate E slides in'the flat socket-1G, and "is .removahleby. being withdrawn for the convenience of placing'on the cloth for operation. The arm K,.as shown, isuot the necessary arm for several waysof attaching it, so position near the needle for ope The edge of the L. 'The end of thee] en the plates E and; A D

as'tobe in a proper rating-f 0th is then passed ge of E, takin'g'with it the the cloth yet being to the-1e I v What I'claimas my invention, and desire'to secure by Letterslatent, is'- V The adjustable sliding-plate A, the plated), the forming-plate E,-and ref; all constructed and await specified.

ulating-guide L," ged as and for the purpose Lemmy-E. BODWELL, JR. Witnesses,

Whit-v Josnrn F, Foorn tucker, there, are

plait previously'. formed is entered and the'plate D is it in the form of a' fold, the end of hinged folding-1 

